User visits and time spent on the social media platform normalize after traffic to Reddit briefly dipped last week during the blackout, according to SimilarWeb.
Edit: but also see https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/88139/Reddit-traffic-returning-normal-sort-of which explains that ad visits are still waaay down - and continue going downhill.
Oh, look another article on how Reddit is fine. Must be fine, everyone stop protesting, it doesn’t work. /s
Reddit is unprofitable with massive new expenses, no realistic plan on making a profit, apparently trying to pump for an upcoming IPO, being run by a CEO who seems fine to disrespect its lifeblood, the community, and thinks it’s a good idea to emulate Elmo… what could go wrong?
Like these sorts of things with large momentum, they don’t stop overnight but who can say the Reddit ship is on a good trajectory?
Well. With the CEO blatantly lying and just showing how little integrity he has whats stopping him from just hiring a bunch of cheap workers/bots. Or even just blatantly changing the numbers in the database? He can change the upvotes for any post with just a simple database update.
That said, I really like this insightful take:
TL;DR - the protests worked, also expect to see a different headline once we reach June 30.
There’s also the longer term effect that could be in play of the content pool drying up and driving users away, those changes are reverberations and wouldn’t be having a dramatic immediate effect.
Right now if anything I’d expect views to be spiking due to the content generated from the drama itself. Once that dies out then damages to content generation from driving away users will be more evident.
Not to mention, this is user stats, not mod stats. Reddit with no moderation would have a pretty quick expiry date. Normal users no longer doomscrolling once they hear about an abstract software principle was never the plan (or at least I hope it wasn’t).
